Mission Program Support

GAMA-1 scientific computing subject matter experts help
scientists and researches solve problems in running complex modeling and
simulation programs in currently available computing environments or with only
limited access to high performance computing (HPC) environments. Programs that have taken 30 days or longer to
run in on-premise computing environments have been analyzed at the code level
and rewritten to run in only a few days.

When confronted with limited access to high performance computing
environments, we optimize program code and implement job schedulers so that a
program runs efficiently, employs parallel computing, and generates results in
much shorter time periods. To overcome
the challenge of limited access to the agency high performance computing
environment, we designed and implemented a successful proof of concept for HPC
in the cloud that leverages parallel computing across over a thousand cores of
compute power.